The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.